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Submitted by kkillian on Friday, March 9, 2012 - 9:18am
Monday at 8:00 AM a hearing will be heard on the "right to work" constitutional amendment. MAPE strongly opposes this measure because it is unfair, unsafe and unnecessary.
Please click here to contact key Senators on this bill right now!
Click here to RSVP to attend the hearing on Monday.
Submitted by mcody on Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 5:08pm
The Minnesota Senate's Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed "right to work" constitutional amendment at 8 a.m. Monday in Room 15 at the state Capitol.
MAPE members: We need a strong showing at this hearing. Register here to let us know you will be there: http://action.teammape.org/site/Calendar/1536870020?view=RSVP&id=100281
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Submitted by kkillian on Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 2:44pm
Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed "right to work" constitutional amendment at 8 a.m. Monday in Room 15 at the state Capitol. MAPE members: We need a strong showing at this hearing. Register here to let us know you will be there: http://action.teammape.org/site/Calendar/1536870020?view=RSVP&id=100281
In a rarely seen legislative maneuver, Minnesota...
Submitted by mcody on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 5:14pm
A study by the National Institute on Retirement Security blows rhetoric about bloated public employee pensions out of the water. See details of the study here: www.nirsonline.org/storage/nirs/documents/factSheetsPreviews/Factsheet_MN.pdf
The average Minnesota public employee pension in 2009, the most recent year covered in the report, was a mere $20,633 per year, according the Hot Dish Blog....
Submitted by mcody on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 12:55pm
Statement of Jim Monroe,
Executive Director of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees
On the February Budget Forecast
For more coverage of the budget forecast, please go here:
With budget surplus in hand, Dayton wants session to focus on jobs MPR
$323M surplus forecast for state budget, but ... Star Tribune
“Governor Mark Dayton has done a remarkable job...
Submitted by mcody on Monday, February 27, 2012 - 11:38am
With the memories of union battles in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states still fresh, the GOP majorities in the Minnesota Legislature are moving slowly on whether or not they want to take on the fight with unions over proposed “right to work legislation, according to a Minneapolis Star Tribune article titled, GOP weighs cost of union battle.
House Speaker Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, was...
Submitted by mcody on Friday, February 24, 2012 - 2:35pm
“Fighting the freeload” is the headline of an opinion piece posted on the Twin Cities Daily Planet. The editorial opposes the GOP-controlled Minnesota Legislature’s proposed “right to work” constitutional amendment.
“Work hard,” the Daily Planet editorial begins. “Benefit from hard work, time and investment, then give it all away to someone who...
Submitted by kkillian on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 5:50pm
The highly anticipated redistricting maps were released Tuesday afternoon.
Team MAPE will be working to defeat a number of GOP legislators in 2012 who do not support state employees. The districts many Republican anti labor legislators will be running are now more DFL leaning then they were before.
The new districts will make reelection more difficult for incumbents such as...
Submitted by mcody on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 1:34pm
“Wrong” for Minnesota and a “right to freeload,” is how media articles and posts are labeling the Minnesota Legislature's proposed “right to work” constitutional amendment.
Two opinion pieces in Sunday’s Star Tribune oppose “the wrongly-named “right to work” proposed constitutional amendment. The Star Tribune’s editorial (...
